A LISTENER FROM ENGLAND
Sir,-Maving come out from Engiand recently, I cannot help but write to you about the poor quality of New Zealand’s radio programmes. Thére are far too many bits, quarter-of-an-hour of this, and quarter-of-an-hour of that, instead of programmes arranged to last at least an hour or longer. It is the same with the, plays-which drag on for weeks, instead of one good play lasting all night and finishing that night. We always had a play on one night a week in Eng-_ land, lasting all night. Of course they’ had serials as well, but never dragging on as they do here. ; I love listening to the wireless. When you do not go out much, it is such company, but I don’t like your bits of programmes. Also your Listener devotes far too much space to reading matter, and not enough to detailing the programmes, which are cramped into such
a small space one cannot read them properly. Could you not spread the programmes out more and detail them, making them easy for people to read and understand as the Radio Times does for the BBC. It is hopeless for old people to try to read the programmes at present.
HOPEFUL
(Kaikoura).
(Our correspondent forgets that we have to do with one journal what the BBC does with three-The Radio. Times, The Listener, and London Calling.-Ed.) *
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 5
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229A LISTENER FROM ENGLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 5
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